reading your excellent comments. Have also read your previous posts on the subject concerning your heart attacks with interest.
It's late here, 2AM, so am printing a copy and placing on the kitchen table for my wife to read 1st thing when she gets up.
She is doing fine right now, not taking any medication, and scheduled for further medical appointments with her regular doctor.
Regards,
John
I couldn't get it to post because of its length and couldn't find where to cut it back and have it make sense. Sorry for posting out of your thread but wanted to catch your eye for some info I have to pass along.
Surprisingly, John, they are just realizing in the last couple of years that heart attacks in women don't normally have the classic symptoms, which is why so many of us died from heart attacks....we were misdiagnosed for years.
Symptoms for women range from having a backache between the shoulder blades, indigestion with acid reflux, pressure at the base of the throat, pain in the lower jaw, pressure down the sides of the next along with pressure in the ears, cold sweats with heavy perspiration from mid-chest up that includes the arms and head, and a few others I don't recall immediately. Very few of these symptoms come together at the same time....they almost always are individual symptoms.
My first heart attack gave me warning signs for months that nobody recognized....a feeling of having a 'hairball' in my throat that wasn't phlegm that could be coughed up or swallowed down. It was there every day for months and completely disappeared two days before the attack came in the form of pressure at the base of my throat with the cold sweats that had perspiration dripping from my face and arms not just a 'clammy' feeling.
Since cholesterol can accumulate in any artery and not just the ones near the heart, whenever you or your wife go for checkups, make it a habit to also have the doctor listen to the blood flow sounds in the arteries in your neck as well....an easy way to tell if you are a stroke waiting to happen and nobody but an emergency room doctor ever bothered to mention it or check it for me, including my own heart 'specialists' which I don't have anymore. I went on to replace that team with a general practioner who checks for everything and specializes in nothing so there is no tunnel vision with her.
Hope your wife is well, John. I was in the emergency room twice in the last two weeks over strange symptoms and it turned out to be a reaction of mixing two new meds with my regular ones. Not taking those meds anymore and things are back to whatever is normal for me, so if your wife is also on some new meds, have her checked for that to be a possibility also.
TONI

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